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Jun 2019
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Laura and Sarah discuss their latest favorite podcasts and are then joined by Emily Oster, a Ph.D. in economics and a professor at Brown University.  She is the author of recent release Crib Sheets: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, and she was inspired to dig deep into the data on how we parent when she first became a mother herself.  She and her husband now have 2 children.  In the Q&A, Laura and Sarah address a listener question about time estimation and avoiding overwork.

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